I shed many tears as I read this beautiful essay by #EdwidgeDanticat she is always an exemplar of writing with your whole heart 🙏🏾 The Haiti That Still Dreams | The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/essay/…

🚨 BREAKING:

Earlier today, it leaked that Columbia University threatened in negotiations to SIC THE NATIONAL GUARD ON ITS OWN STUDENTS.

This message from CU President Minouche Shafik seems to confirm such as she proclaims that negotiations have a deadline of 12 AM.

This is

My students have expressed concern about the large police presence around the campus--not the camp of protestors on the lawn.

What is really going on at Columbia University? Not what you’ve been told. slate.com/human-interest… via @slate

Ashamed of New York University for sending in the NYPD to beat on and arrest its students and faculty. I personally stopped by today and dropped off a tent and art supplies and noticed how calm it was.

As an alum, know you will never ever see a donation dollar from me.

⁦New York University⁩ did not have to do what it did last night. Statement from ⁦AAUP - NYU Chapter⁩.

Very very tense moments at the New York University encampment where public safety officer attempted to shut down the growing protest around the encampment and was sent on his way. #nyu4palestine #studentprotests

NYU fac the first fac to go down in solidarity with and support for their students. 🫡

Faculty and students speaking out against suspensions at #columbia

I’m honestly crying a little as I watch this video.

When I think about what it means to be an educator, it is this. A shared commitment to, and love for, your students and their right to learn and act on that learning.

And for them to do this during prayer 🙏🏽

.⁦Marie Myung-Ok Lee⁩ at the #columbiauniversity faculty protest today

With no comment on having Wednesday fed her faculty to wolves or Thursday ordering her students carried away by police, CU pres. Shafik today noted that “[t]he decibel of our disagreements has only increased in recent days.”

As police and admins punish Yale students for their refusal to obey rules that silence their dissent to genocide, we teach life.
Hala Alyan, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Natalie Diaz in conversation in New Haven this Friday.
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Some of my favorite signs at the Encampment #cu4palestine

To put loss into perspective, I use familiar reference points. The number of Palestinians murdered in this genocide now exceeds the population of my hometown at the time of my birth. The whole town. Gone. What a horror.

Speaking out while working for a #university ?

Some tips to protect your career— cuz neither tenure nor the union will be enough.

(1) Put a copy of every file & email you care about your *own* computer or cloud. Do not leave anything valuable solely on university computing.

Mothers & children & gardens are being bombed & starved in Gaza. You cannot eat or drink a book. No book will stop a 2000lb bomb or snipers taking out children playing foosball. Yet how many US poets will write about this once it’s “safe” to & center their own special oppression?

I’ve heard:

“The Columbia AAUP held an emergency meeting today, called on the university to drop charges and reinstate the students.

They are organizing to move classes off campus Monday, boycotting graduation, and moving to vote no confidence in the president.'

Good.

Statements, signatures & declarations of solidarity can be as performative as land acknowledgments.And yet I long to know which of my colleagues on this app are willing to stand up & be counted, to lend their names & declare their solidarity w/students & condemn the admins cum👮.